AI Agents and the Core of IAM: Key Takeaways from the Gartner IAM Summit 2025
Discover, secure and manage AI agents & NHIs
Maintain real-time inventory of all AI agents, MCP servers, and NHIs, with context to understand risk and business usage.
Identify and remediate AI agents and NHIs with excessive privileges, vulnerable configurations, abnormal activity, and policy violations.
Provision secure-by-design AI agents with short-lived credentials, just-in-time, precisely scoped access, and policy at creation.
Set policy to resolve hygiene issues, reduce attack surfaces and prevent compliance violations.
Manage AI agents and their NHIs from provisioning to decommissioning.
Detect and respond to threats such as compromised credentials and out-of scope agent actions.
Control and enforce policies across your NHI attack surface.
Manage NHIs from provisioning to decommissioning.
Detect and respond to suspicious NHI activity & 3rd party breaches.
Centralized secret management across vaults & cloud.
Discover and assess third-party apps & vendors accessing your environment
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Jonathan Sander (aka Sander) has been working in IT since 1996 and focusing on Identity and Security since 2004. Whether itβs clarifying compliance and regulations for engineers or technical architectures for executives, his focus has been simplifying the translating complex ideas with analogies. Sander joined Astrix as their first Field CTO in 2025. He also currently serves as an Executive Board Member at ALTR and an Executive Advisor at Myota. Recently, Sander served as the Lead Sales Engineer at Talon (now part of Palo Alto) and was the founding member of the Security Field CTO team at Snowflake. If you donβt encounter him doing his duty spreading cyber-clarity far and wide, he can be found hanging around with his family or flipping through back issues at any comic shop he happens to see in his journeys.
AI Agents and the Core of IAM: Key Takeaways from the Gartner IAM Summit 2025